Monday MediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Granada releases prospectus detailing plans for the flotation of its media arm (see Granada Group To Float Media Arm).The Competition Commission releases its report into the proposed mergers of Granada and Carlton Communications and Granada and United News and Media (see… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The number of UK TV homes with digital television is expected to reach 6.3m by the end of this year. The latest figures from Merrill Lynch predict that of 24.3m TV homes, 1m will take ONdigital services and 4.8m will be with BSkyB. Nearing the end of the decade, the percentage of TV homes with… Continue reading UK Digital TV Homes Could Top Six Million By 2001
WPP held its AGM today and gave a trading update which detailed a positive start to the year. On a constant currency basis, worldwide revenues were up by more than 18%. Within this, UK revenues rose by nearly 11%.Revenues from advertising and media investment management ended the first five months of 2000 up more than… Continue reading WPP Tells AGM Of Rising Revenues
This year’s cinema admissions for May were higher than they have been for 25 years. According to Carlton Screen Advertising, 11.3m people went to see films including the blockbuster Gladiator and Final Destination, representing more than a 50% increase on the same period in 1999.Gladiator which opened over here following great success in the US,… Continue reading May Days Prove No Emergency For Cinema Box Offices
ITV has revealed the details of the second proposal it put to the ITC in the hope of improving news audiences. The proposal, which included an increased budget, was once again rejected yesterday (see ITC Tells ITV To Bring Forward Nightly News) as the ITC stuck to its guns and said the broadcaster must move… Continue reading ITV Reveals The Measures That Weren’t Enough For The ITC
Programmes May comes along and the viewers start melting away quicker than England’s back four. With a dearth of decent new programmes in the schedules, terrestrial television is beginning to rival UK Gold with its output. In times of crisis programme makers always rely on the safe tried and tested programmes to grab big audience… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – May 2000
Talk of a court battle between ITV and the Independent Television Commission (ITC) was in the air today after the industry watchdog told the broadcaster to move its Nightly News programme to an earlier slot. The culmination of a year-long tussle between the two, provoked by slumping audience figures for national and regional news on… Continue reading ITV’s Battle With The ITC Could End In Court
Designer feathers have been ruffled in the editorial offices of UK style bibles by claims that self-regulation will result from Tessa Jowell’s “Body Image Summit”. A terse open letter has been released by the editors of some of the top fashion magazines denying that any such commitment had been made.Yesterday press coverage of the summit,… Continue reading Editors Deny Self-Regulating Body To Be Established
Telewest shares suffered along with other telecommunications companies yesterday, dropping 14p to £2.78. Cable & Wireless managed to buck the trend following news that it had received clearance from the government to dispose of its Hong Kong Business (see Sharewatch). Shares ended up 19p at £12.06.Pearson shares fell £1.40 yesterday, to end at £20.87. This… Continue reading Sharewatch
Natmags is to team up with the owners of the second most visited women’s portal in the US, www.women.com to launch a version in the UK. The site, www.uk.women.com will include content from Natmag brands including Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan and will be up against existing women’s web offerings like IPC’s www.beme.com and Daily Mail… Continue reading Launches Brief
